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. 2021 Sep 30;18(19):10302.
doi: 10.3390/ijerph181910302.

The Influence of Work-Family Conflict on Burnout during the COVID-19 Pandemic: The Effect of Teleworking Overload

Holger Raúl Barriga Medina  1 , Ronald Campoverde Aguirre  1 , David Coello-Montecel  2 , Paola Ochoa Pacheco  2 , Milton Ismael Paredes-Aguirre  1   3
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The Influence of Work-Family Conflict on Burnout during the COVID-19 Pandemic: The Effect of Teleworking Overload

Holger Raúl Barriga Medina et al. Int J Environ Res Public Health. .

Abstract

If there is any field that has experienced changes as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, it is work, primarily due to the implementation of teleworking and the effort made by workers and families to face new responsibilities. In this context, the study aims to analyze the impact of work-family conflict on burnout, considering work overload, in teleworkers during the COVID-19 pandemic. To evaluate the hypotheses, we used data collected during the last week of July 2020 using an online survey. Work-family conflict and burnout were measured using the Gutek et al. (1991) and Shirom (1989) scales. We tested the hypotheses using a structural equation model (SEM). The results indicated, between other findings, that there was a positive relationship between work-family conflict and family-work conflict and all the dimensions of burnout. However, there was no effect of teleworking overload in the work-family conflict and burnout relationship. This article is innovative because it highlights the importance of the economic and regulatory conditions that have surrounded the modality of teleworking during the pandemic, and their influence on wellbeing and psychosocial risks in workers.

Keywords: COVID-19; burnout; family–work conflict; teleworking; work overload; work–family conflict.

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The authors declare no conflict of interest.

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Research model.
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Standardized structural path coefficients. Notes: N = 1044; ** p < 0.01.
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Standardized structural path coefficients for the multigroup analysis. G1: teleworked 8 or less hours (n = 722); G2: teleworked more than 8 h (n = 322). * p < 0.05; ** p < 0.01.
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